Prices
| Part | Model | Price | Purchased from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | Chenbro NR12000 Combo 3/4 | $180.00 | ebay (OBO) |
| Motherboard | TYAN S5512 | $0.00 | included in combo |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 | $0.00 | included in combo |
| Memory | 4x Kingson 8GB DDR3 ECC Ram | $0.00 | included in combo |
| Case | Antec Three Hundred Two | $40.00 | Local |
| PSU | Corsair RMx 550 | $0.00 | Left over from old build |
| Fans | 2x Noctua NF-F12 120mm fans | $0.00 | Left over from old build |
| Fans | Noctua NF-A12x15 120mm Slim fan | $0.00 | Left over from old build |
| Fan Adapter | Noctua NA-SFMA1 140mm-120mm adapter | $12.00 | Amazon |
| Fans | 2x NZXT AEF 120mm Fans | $0.00 | Left over from old build |
| CPU Cooler | Noctua NH-L9i | $0.00 | Left over from old build |
| HDD Cage | Rosewill RASA-11001 4bay cage | $30.00 | Ebay |
| SSD | ADATA SU635 480gb (Cache) | $55.00 | Amazon |
| HDD | 2x WD Easystore 12TB | $340.00 | Local |
| HDD | 2x WD Easystore 10TB | $360.00 | Bestbuy |
| HDD | 6x WD SAS 3TB (when they arrive…) | $108.00 | Bitdeals Tech |
| Total without Disk | $262.00 | ||
| Total with Disk | $1,125.00 |
Specs
4C / 8T, 3.70GHz Turbo
32GB DDR3 ECC RAM
6 3.5" bays (4 3.5" bays via HDD cage)
LSI SAS2008 onboard
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Description
This way my first foray into building a server. I’ve built many computers in the past but never worked with server hardware. The most intimidating part of all of this was trying to figure out the compatible parts but this forum/discord/guides provided everything you could possibly want.
One of the few issues I ran into was with a VGA-HDMI cable to my monitor in order to flash the LSI card. I was using an active VGA-HDMI cable but my main monitor didn’t always pickup the signal from it. I borrowed a monitor with vga support from a friend in order to flash it. The other issue was I needed to mod my case (removed some tabs) in order to fit the Rosewill Cage into the 5.25" bays.
I originally built this to be an all in one NAS/Plex server for a few friends but that didn’t last long. I now have a HP290 handling my plex transcoding, so this is just running Radarr, Sonarr, tautulli, deluge, nzbget. I’m sure I’ll find other uses for it soon enough and I just want to keep upgrading things…
